County-level estimates for 2018 row crops in South Dakota are now available from the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service.
County-level row crop estimates are not published if any of the following conditions exist:
- Estimated planted acres are less than 500.
- Insufficient number of producer reports were received to establish statistically defensible estimates.
- Estimate would not guarantee confidentiality of reported data from an individual producer.
The commodity estimates released for South Dakota include corn, sorghum, soybeans and sunflowers. County-level estimates for hay will be published in April 2019.
The estimates, based primarily on surveys conducted with farmers and ranchers last fall, can be accessed using the QuickStats online database. Find a link in this story at www.drgnews.com.